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wedrifid comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 6 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: wedrifid 03 December 2010 02:41:08AM 5 points [-]

The rules are not that simple.

The rules are simple. So are the rules for Go.

stimulated annealing

I had to look up whether that was, in fact, a new kind of optimisation algorithm. It certainly sounds like it should be. ;)

Comment author: erratio 03 December 2010 05:10:02AM 0 points [-]

I assumed that it was well-known since I learnt about it in first-year computing (nearly 7 years ago now..). In retrospect, that was probably a silly assumption.

Comment author: Sniffnoy 03 December 2010 05:25:06AM 5 points [-]

I think the joke is that you wrote "stimulated annealing" rather than "simulated annealing".

Comment author: erratio 03 December 2010 05:43:01AM 1 point [-]

Oh! I always that was a valid alternate spelling of the same word. My bad.

Comment author: ciphergoth 03 December 2010 01:44:04PM 1 point [-]

Almost unrelated words. From thefreedictionary.com: simulate stimulate.